Head of Product & Creative

The role: You own the product and the brand for year one: what we make, how it fits and gets built with our factories, and how it looks everywhere a customer meets it. Small team, so you make most of it with your own hands. You will own: Design and development of the line: flats, tech packs, BOMs, fabric and trim sourcing with our Italian and Japanese mills Fit: running fittings and sample rounds through PP approval with our New York sample rooms Factory coordination: the weekly cadence with our domestic makers, cost sheets, POs, grading, size charts, bulk oversight Art direction of every shoot (campaign, lookbook, e-commerce), briefing freelance photographers and art directors Site design direction for our Shopify build, plus packaging, hangtags, labels, print collateral, and the store and pop-up environment Brand voice and copy; briefing and directing our social lead Applying and evolving the brand book we've already built: identity, palette, typography, pattern, pelican mark By March 2027 you will have: Taken the launch capsule from protos through PP approval and into bulk Directed the launch shoot in Palm Beach Put packaging into production and seen the site go live Shipped the first drop and the first campaign You 5+ years in menswear design and product development at a brand, with at least one collection taken from sketch to production and one launch or rebrand behind you Technical: you write tech packs, run fittings, and talk to pattern makers and sewing rooms in their language; Illustrator fluency, PLM or spreadsheets, your call You've worked with domestic sample rooms and factories, and with Italian mills Hands-on across the brand: you can design a page, build a deck, and direct a shoot, or brief someone who can You've worked directly with a founder and like it Based in New York, where our fittings are, with regular time in Palm Beach Not a fit if you've only designed and handed off to a tech team, you need a team to execute, or you've only worked inside big-brand process. Details Full-time. New York, hybrid, with regular travel to Palm Beach. Start: October 2026 Structure: 90-day contract, converting to full-time employee

Compensation: $120,000+ depending on location and experience To apply Send a portfolio link that shows both: product you've developed (tech packs, fit, production) and brand work you've directed. Add 150 words on one brand you think gets product and visual world right together, and why. Résumé optional. Applications without both won't be reviewed. No agencies.